True. And Trump can find the strength to admit he lost the election fairly. He’s already made proposals. It’s extremely good for business. Take a look...
They have no interest in a negotiated settlement. This war is good for business, and so there's little chance the US will allow Putin any kind of path...
That the United States has a major role to play in this conflict, historically and currently -- and are, as usual, making things worse by rejecting pe...
:rofl: Yes— because you can definitely have views when you don’t exist. I guess digestion precedes being alive, too. :roll: Glad you choose idiocy ove...
Being precedes views. You’re just contradicting yourself because you’re confused by words. It’s about as profound as saying “that’s your opinion.” Riv...
But that statement certainly is. Namely, a sophomoric, silly perspective. Which happens to be complete nonsense. And, non-trivially, I’ll emphasize th...
Rightfully so. He gives no interpretation himself. He wants to look at the basis for all interpretations— which is the human being. If human being is ...
The human being can not be eliminated from science. It all comes out of the human mind. There’s no doubt about that. Science is a human endeavor— as i...
I'm not sure how to take this. Is this what you believe or is it an attempt to mock what you think I believe? If the latter: no, I don't think NATO is...
Maybe gravity and digestion and circulation depends on culture too. :roll: Existence is not culturally determined. Reducing this to cultural determina...
So the fact that we're alive, that we exist, is culturally dependent? So the statement "objective reality is culture dependent" is also culture depend...
What you said: Your quote from Heidegger: So again, I repeat: not once did Heidegger make a claim remotely like what you claim. No one once denied tha...
Everything is a mental construction. Everything subjective. There’s no such thing as truth. Nothing exists. Everything changes— but change isn’t a thi...
A king of cheap skepticism, I suppose. Maybe life is a dream! Etc. Descartes dealt with this years ago— and Kant, in his own way, after him. That we “...
I fell behind this thread a while back and it’s too long for me to go through, but I’ve perused. And I see what you mean. I see a lot of people talkin...
It’s not the reason I’m talking about it. I’ve known this for years— long before this crisis. I have no access to Russian propaganda— in fact quite th...
No— in order to say it, or think it, you have to be. Anything we think, say, feel, or do presupposes existence. I’ll repeat: unless change is nothing,...
Not really. To recognize anything whatsoever is not metaphysics. We see the world in terms of entities in that world. Beings. That’s simply consciousn...
You aren’t listening. Change is something. Therefore change “is.” Is-ness is being. Unless you’re claiming change is nothing— which is an absurdity— t...
Rightfully so. I’m very glad to hear it. I don’t think it can be done to death, though. Not that NATO is “evil,” but that agreements were made (alas, ...
Yes— American exceptionalism. Everything we do is for democracy and freedom. All military action is defensive (department of defense). There’s little ...
In case this hasn't been posted yet, I'll link it below, with excerpts. Joint Statement on the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Worth remembering th...
:up: Being is not a being. But beyond that -- if what you say is true, and we cannot assign a name to anything that changes -- then we can't name anyt...
Ask yourself this: is change a "thing" of any kind? I'd say "Yes, of course -- it's at least a concept, a word, etc." So it is a being -- it is "somet...
I think we need to shake the traditional views of Parmenides and Heraclitus. This "being versus becoming" is a false one. Why should we presume that "...
Won’t happen. Because he’s never read a word of Kant. Just like he’s never read a word of Kuhn. He’s just a liar who wants to posture. Who knows why. ...
And intellectually unevolved. What's particularly dangerous isn't Rand herself, but the cult-like following of her. She's only somewhat responsible fo...
I didn’t say it was cognate. There are no “facts” involved. So this statement is just stupid. Look - you have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s ...
Yes, it does. Natura is the Latin translation of phusis. No. First we are. Yes, you can. I’ll skip the rest. Lying children don’t deserve serious resp...
A little synopsis: Thinking is an activity that human beings do. Thinking defined by the universal nature of its questions— especially the question of...
:rofl: If you are ignorant of the objective nature of the Scientific Method — Nickolasgaspar There isn't such a thing as "A scientific Method". — Nick...
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